Friday, July 24, 2015

Screenwriter Laurice Elehwany and television writer Rick Copp have
been hired to write the latest draft of Paramount Pictures’ “Brady Bunch”
feature being developed by producer David Kirkpatrick, sources confirmed
Tuesday.

Elehwany, who penned
1991’s “My Girl,” and Copp are picking up the screenwriting chores from
Sherwood and Lloyd Schwartz, who have written a first draft of the script.Sherwood Schwarz, who
developed the “Brady” TV series, and his son, Lloyd, will also serve as the
film’s executive producers.Described as “The Brady
Bunch” meets “Desperate Hours,” the feature is about a gang of escaped
prisoners who hide out in the Brady house for the weekend and hold the family
hostage.

According to a source
close to the production, Elehwany and Copp were hired to bring more of a parody
element to the script.

“The Brady family will
talk, walk and act like it’s 1974,” said the source, “but they live in the
’90s. The comedy will come from that situation.”